Senior Software Engineer

Foster City, CA | Engineering

Job Description

About Us:

TechShed operates in a fierce startup culture where we move fast and take risks, where what you brainstorm in the morning can be implemented in the afternoon. Folks who are afraid of impassioned whiteboard debates and rowdy ping-pong games need not apply. We’re looking for people who are zealous about building products that drive billions of dollars in revenue.

Our philosophy relies heavily on working hard and playing hard: Life at TechShed includes company ski trips, wine tastings, and work-abroad opportunities. Sound like a good time? Come build things with the company that builds things in America.

Relish in the role of being a front-end specialist. We will look to you to solve hard problems and make our front-end fast, elegant and awesome.

Build leading edge features using social, mobile, AJAX, widgets and more.

Requirements:

Fluent in JavaScript with a deep understanding of how to make everything work harmoniously together. Ability to go off-book in JavaScript. You cross-browser debug in your sleep.

PASSIONATE about realizing great design through code. You have opinions about the products you work on and aren't afraid to defend them / be criticized / be wrong. You know how to be confident and consultative at the same time.

Experience writing code that interacts with a large, complex back end. You have some experience working in a server side scripting language... it would be great if it was Python, but others (PHP, Java, Ruby) are also fine.

Software Engineering discipline. We need you to understand what it means to work in a professional software engineering environment and how to work effectively with other talented team members. No cowboys or lone wolves. You take pride in checking in bug free code.

Comfortable with compromise – you build beautiful, functional stuff, but you know that the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Demonstrable experience building user interfaces that render perfectly across a multitude of operating systems, browsers and mail clients. You take pride in your pixels. You routinely astonish colleagues with your detail orientation.

Experience working in short, agile, iterative development cycles.

You code for fun and have a side project or two you help out with.

Experience integrating with third parties - through APIs or otherwise.